3 charged in kidnapping, including school worker

Tuesday

May 7, 2013 at 12:01 AM

JACKSON, Miss. | One of three women accused in the kidnapping last week of a 6-year-old Kemper County, Miss., girl was the secretary at her elementary school. Authorities told The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss., that Jesse Mae Brown Pollard, 54, of Northport, was charged last week with taking Jashayla Markayia Hopson from East Kemper Elementary School in Scooba, Miss. On Friday, Wanda Faye Dancy, 51, and Shamarius Ruffin, 25, were arrested in Meridian, Miss., in connection with the case. All three women are charged with kidnapping. Pollard is the mother of University of Alabama basketball player Devonta Pollard, who was a McDonald's All-American coming out of high school and a five-star recruit.According to the affidavit, Dancy told agents that Pollard had told her she wanted to take the child for “leverage” in order to get some land back. Pollard was denied bond and she remains in federal custody. Ruffin and Dancy will have a preliminary hearing this week.